Anne Upton

{{Short description|American composer and radio writer}}

Florine Anne Upton Baldwin (28 June 1892 – 8 September 1970){{Cite web|last=Baldwin|first=Florine Anne Upton|title=ancestry.com|url=https://www.ancestry.com|access-date=24 Apr 2021}} was an American composer{{Cite book|last=Stewart-Green|first=Miriam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fyEKAQAAMAAJ|title=Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice|date=1980|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=978-0-8161-8498-9|language=en}} and radio writer, who published her works under the name Anne Upton.{{Cite book|last=Hixon|first=Donald L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156|title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Don A. Hennessee|isbn=0-8108-2769-7|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=28889156}}

Upton was born in Marble Falls, Newton, Arkansas,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fs1HAAAAMAAJ&q=anne+upton+composer|title=A Directory of 132 Arkansas Composers|date=1979|publisher=University Library, University of Arkansas|language=en}} to Canzadia Ramsey and Albert Franklin Upton. Her son Rex Allen Head was born in Texas in 1916. She married Donald A. Baldwin around 1926. She lived in Los Angeles from at least 1930 until her death in 1970. Little is known about her musical education. She studied writing at the Frederick Palmer Institute of Authorship in Hollywood, California.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846|title=International encyclopedia of women composers|date=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4|edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged|location=New York|oclc=16714846}}

Upton belonged to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and worked as a radio writer and producer. During the early 1940s, she wrote the words for several choral works by composer William T. Wilkins,{{Cite web|title=William Grant Still|url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1h4nb0g0&chunk.id=d0e2310&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e2310&brand=ucpress&query=|access-date=2021-04-25|website=publishing.cdlib.org}} doing business as "Wilton House, Los Angeles." Her compositions include: